• Maitrayee Sinha

The socioeconomic condition of north-east India is basically weak and economically backward. The rural people of this region have been suffering from unemployment problems, educational backwardness, and underutilization of natural resources, violence and emergencies, disturbance of law and order situations, backwardness of transport and communications problems, rural poverty, food problems, and other socio-economic problems. Common problems of There are small ethical groups of people living in this part, and they have common problems of technological backwardness. So this region helps to transform from a backward sector to a developed sector, which is accompanied by rural development. Rural development implies both the economic betterment of the people as well as greater social transformation. With the help of rural development, which increases the participation of the rural people in the process of developmental activities, better economic planning, better enforcement of land reforms, and greater access to credit, it is possible to provide better quality of life, improvements in the side of healthy life, and rural people have to get pure drinking water, proper sanitation facilities, and proper education facilities. Economic transformation mobilises the path of decent employment, eliminating poverty, with the help of democratic planning, taking a leading role in decision-making processes in economic development, restructuring the economy to provide the basic needs, and minimising the environmental impact of economic transformation. According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, ‘’India is destined to emerge as a major powerhouse of the evolving global economy and, in the process, also get rid of the chronic poverty, ignorance, and diseases that still affect a large section of our society.’’ Therefore, development indicates improvements in infrastructural facilities, improvement of health conditions, provision of pure drinking water, and balanced sector-wise development in rural agriculture and industrial sectors.

i) Rural; ii) Development; iii) Quality of life. Iv) Agriculture; v) industrial sectors.

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF NORTH-EAST INDIA: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 10, page no.573-576, October-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A82.pdf

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF NORTH-EAST INDIA: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 10, page no. pp573-576, October-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A82.pdf